Pembrokeshire Record OfficeR. K. Lucas and Son collection of Pembrokeshire papers

Reference code(s): GB 0213 D/RKL

Held at: Pembrokeshire Record Office

Title: Messrs R. K. Lucas and Son Papers

Short Title: R. K. Lucas and Son collection of Pembrokeshire papers

Creation date(s): 1683-[1980s]

Level of description: Fonds

Extent:

Name of creator(s): Messrs R. K. Lucas and Son

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history: Messrs R. K. Lucas & Son, of Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, is one of the oldest firms of surveyors, valuers, auctioneers and estate agents in Wales, having been traced back to 1789 with roots lying in the 15th and 16th centuries. The firm acted as agents for many estates in Pembrokeshire, and also administered charities and other bodies. The firm undertook the clerkship to the Trustees of Perrot's and Vawer's Charities and clerkship to Prendergast Burial Board. Sir John Perrot's Trust was a grant set up for the improvement of Haverfordwest. The firm also sold fishing licenses for the Cleddau Fishery Board. The firm acted as agent for the Scourfield family of Mote and Pentre, Williamston, Pembrokeshire, which included John Henry Philipps (1808-1876), Arthur Picton Saunders Davies Scourfield, and Henry Gwyn Saunders Davies Scourfield, and for other individuals and estates in Pembrokeshire, including John Philipps Allen Lloyd (b. 1802), James C. Yorke (fl. 1896-1927), the Lloyd Davies family of Glanafon Estate, John Wynford Philipps, Viscount St Davids, (1860-1938), the Stokes family of St Botolphs, Steynton, the Tucker-Edwardes family of Sealyham, St Dogwells, the Evans family of Treffgarn, the Scoveston Park estate, the Rind family of Allenbrook, Dale, the Massy family of Cottesmore, Prendergast, and the Mortimer family of Court Estate, Llanllawer.

Finding aids: Hard copies of the catalogue are available at Pembrokeshire Record Office and the National Register of Archives

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information: All records deposited at Pembrokeshire Record Office have been retained

Accruals: Accruals are not expected.

Archival history: A number of the properties in Haverfordwest belonged to the Borough of Haverfordwest and it is unclear how some of the properties passed into the ownership of the Perrot Trust.

Immediate source of acquisition: Deposited by Messrs R. K. Lucas and Son Paper, Estate Agents, between 1969 and 1999.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material: Further records are at the National Library of Wales, R. K. Lucas Collection. Further information on the various families are in the Pembrokeshire Record Office, Papers of Sir Hugh James Protheroe Thomas; Records of the Mote Estate and the Williamston Estate, involving the Scourfield family and the Saunders-Davies family of Pentre; Stokes family of St Botolphs Archives; Brigadier H. R. S. Massy papers; and Papers of the Rind, Mathias, Bethel, Hole and Napier families.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note: Title from content of fonds. The records include earlier material accumulated by the firm.

Archivist's note: Compiled by Seri Crawley for the ANW project. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Pembrokeshire Record Office, Messrs. R.K. Lucas and Son Papers catalogue; Jones, Francis, Historic Houses of Pembrokeshire and their Families, (Newport, 1996); R.K. Lucas & Son website (www.pembrokeshirecoastproperties.co.uk) viewed 30/06/05.

Rules or conventions: This description follows ANW guidelines based on ISAD(G) Second Edition; AACR2 and LCSH.